Printer s galley



PATENT OFFICE.

- JASPER SNYDER, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA.

PRINTERS GALLEY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,877, dated January 2, 1866.

To allzu/rom it 'may concern.- y

Be it known that I, JASPER SNYDER, of Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Printers Galley 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a plan or top View of this invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same, the line Fig. l, indicating the plane of section.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention consists in the employment or use, in a printers galley, of a movable sliding lock in such a manner that the use of wedges for locking` up the galley can be dispensed with, and the operation of locking and unlocking1 is considerably facilitated and, furthermore, the foreman or make-np is e11- abled to make up his-forms for the press much more readily and in less time than he can with the old mode of locking up the galleys.

A represents a printers galley ot' the ordinary form and made of any suitable material. One of its side bars, a, is provided with two mortises, b, to receive two guide-bars, c, which extend from the grooved stick d. This stick extends throughout the entire length of the galley, and by means of the guide-bars c and stick d the width ot' the galley can be regulated to suit the column. Suitable setscrews e serve to secure the guide-bars and stick in the desired position. The stick d is grooved throughout its entire length to receive the tail-piece f, which is adjusted in the desired position by the set-screw g.

This sliding lock does away entirely with the wedgin g process, which takes up much time, compelling the compositor to select the dili'erent sizes of Wedges or quons before he can lock his galley; and,furthermore, after the matter has been proved it is rubbed oft' with a brush wet with lye, which causes the wedges or quoins to swell and stick fast to the sidestick and also to the galley, thus causing much loss of time, both in locking the galley and in emptying thc same into the chases. All these inconveniences are avoided by my invention, and the foreman or make-up77 is enabled to justify and make up the matter for the press with little trouble and in less time than he can with the ordinary galley.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentlhe movable sliding lock composed of guidebars c, set-screw c, slotted stick d, and adjustable tail-piecef, in combination with a galley, A, constructed and operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JASPER SNYDER.

Titnesses A. T. HAY, E. G. WRIGHT. 

